NEW HAVEN — Philip Rubin, Ph.D., of Fairfield, Connecticut, formerly the Chief Executive Officer
and a senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories, has taken leave from the Laboratories to take on two
new responsibilities. He has been named as the Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral, and
Economic Sciences in the Executive Office of the President’s Office of Science and Technology
Policy. He also will be serving as a Senior Advisor in the National Science Foundation’s Social,
Behavioral, and Economic Sciences directorate.

Rubin's responsibilities will include helping to implement a new congressionally encouraged
neuroscience initiative across a number of agencies that, according to the congressional conference
report, is intended to "...help focus and enhance Federal efforts toward: developing future clinical
treatments for traumatic and acquired brain injuries; better understanding cognition and learning, and
applying that understanding to improving education and learning; and improving our understanding of
and developing better therapies for Alzheimer's disease, childhood developmental disorders and other
neurological conditions."

Kenneth R. Pugh, President and Director of Research at Haskins Laboratories, commented,
"Over the years Dr. Philip Rubin has provided outstanding leadership and vision at Haskins
Laboratories. He is a dear friend and a mentor to me and others and I am confident that he will do
extraordinary things in his important new roles at the White House OSTP and NSF."

Prior to his recent move to Washington, DC, Rubin also served as an adjunct professor in the
Department of Surgery, Otolaryngology, at the Yale University School of Medicine, and a research
affiliate in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. From 2006 through 2011 Rubin served as
Chair of the National Academies/National Research Council (NRC) Board on Behavioral, Cognitive,
and Sensory Sciences, which focuses on the intersection of cognitive science and public policy, and
chaired the NRC Committee on Field Evaluation of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences-Based
Methods and Tools for Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence. He was also a member of the Executive
Committee of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences. From 2000 through
2003 Rubin served as the Director of the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences at the
National Science Foundation and was the first chair of the Human and Social Dynamics priority area.

Rubin is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Acoustical
Society of America, the American Psychological Association (APA), the Association for
Psychological Science, an elected member of the Psychonomic Society and Sigma Xi, and a member
of a number of other societies, including the Society for Neuroscience. In 2010 Rubin received APA’s
Meritorious Research Service Commendation. A graduate of Brandeis University and the University of
Connecticut, he is married to Joette Katz, Connecticut’s Commissioner of the Department of Children
and Families.

Haskins Laboratories was founded in 1935 by the late Dr. Caryl P. Haskins. This independent research institute has been in New Haven, Connecticut since 1970 when it formalized affiliations with Yale University and the University of Connecticut. The Laboratories’ primary research focus is on the science of the spoken and written word.